Mobile Stage Hire Across Surrey & London

Welcome

Mobile Stage Hire is part of the Outdoor Stages company which is one of the most reputable and trusted stage hire companies in the UK.

This website will show a small section of what we have on offer in terms of mobile stage packages, sound packages, event lighting & LED video wall systems. This website was built due to the demand of a high quality medium sized arc roof mobile stage priced & packaged up neatly supplied by a trusted & reliable mobile stage hire company. Well you will see in our staging packages below we have tried to do our best to offer you exactly that, a no fuss, worry free stage hire experience ran by a can-do stage hire company with a lot of experience in this field.

Services

Hire Your Mobile Stage, Sound & Lighting ALL from One Company

Mobile Stage Hire can provide you with not just great looking outdoor covered stages but also your sound & lighting production. When you're planning an event or music festival of any size your time is key & keeping stress levels down always helps in making sure your festival runs smoothly. Dealing with just one event production company makes sense to a lot of our customers as you only need to speak with us when dealing with your artists requirements, stage lighting ideas and power requirements in a lot of cases.

Hiring the stage, sound & lighting from just one company also makes planning your logistics a lot easier as you know that everything is coming together & will be ready for your event to start on time. Nothing worse than building a stage and then anxiously waiting for the sound & lighting companies to turn up & make it all work... Always try & book festival stage, sound & lighting together.

We have a number of different sound systems suited to solve a number of different event solutions whether this is a distributed speaker system for small events which is very common for small local festivals where you have a small audience area in front of the stage but a large area that needs covering for safety announcements & stage timings. Or maybe you have booked a live band or DJ and you have been sent a technical ''rider'' or the artist requirements, well simply just forward this to one of our Mobile Stage Hire staff members & we can advise on what's the best route to take based on your budget & your artists wish list....

It's common for artists to send over completed sound & lighting technical requirements without any prior knowledge about the stage size, location of the festival site & any noise issues / off site sound restrictions that may need to be factored in.

So basically, what we are saying is whether you have a small 5 piece live acoustic or a large 14-piece world touring artist, mobile stage hire can assist with all of your sound requirements for your festival.

Next up to discuss is your stage lighting.... One of the first questions we will ask is whether your event is taking place in the day, evening or both and there is a good reason for this. If you have a daytime only event then there would be specific lighting fixtures that we would recommend as you'll need to use an effect which can be seen in daylight as opposed to Arial beam affects which are more suited to night-time festivals.

Using LED lighting fixtures can be a huge benefit for daytime shows as you can achieve a bright colour wash and it can be effective even on the brightest of days. Another popular option is LED video wall, LED video wall is a brilliant addition to any festival stage where you're looking to get your brand across or show your sponsors details and we offer some very well priced and packaged LED video wall packages for all of our stages.

We have lots of videos and pictures of all of our stages some with lighting and sound and some without lighting or sound. Our advice would be to flick through our Instagram page which can be found here on this website, find something that you like the look of and simply ask for a quote for that package. Sound packages, stage, lighting packages and video systems can be tailored to your budget & to the size of your event to meet your requirements and to give you the best bang for buck possible.

Top 10 Questions & Useful Tips When Hiring A Stage For Your Festival

What is the first question anybody asks when they are looking to hire an outdoor festival stage? How much is it going to cost me to hire a covered stage for my event......

Well this website should hopefully answer this question and many other questions you may have quickly accurately & honestly. As mentioned above mobile stage hire is part of the outdoor stages company & we stock four sizes of stages: 6m by 4m | 7m by 5m | 10m by 8m & our largest 12m by 10m stage.

The cheapest, smallest mobile stage that we currently offer is our 6 meter by 4 meter mobile stage which has an internal usable area of 24 square meters this stage can be built on 2ft staging legs or 1 meter stage legs & the same goes for our 7 meter by 5 meter mobile stage as well but our bigger 10 meter & 12 meter stages are built using 1.2m or 1.5m high stage legs.

The cost of hiring a small 6 meter by 4 meter covered outdoor mobile stage is £700 plus the delivery & crew charges for building the stage. Now obviously depending on where your festival is plus any logistical issues you might have gaining access to the festival site might affect the delivery and the crew charges but this website gives you a very good indication as to how much it will cost you to hire an outdoor mobile stage.

We would recommend budgeting around £1,200 for a 6 meter by 4 meter mobile stage, a budget of around £2,000 for a covered 7 meter by 5 meter mobile stage, then we suggest budgeting £6,000 for a 10 meter by 8 meter outdoor stage and around £9,000 for a 12 meter by 10 meter covered festival stage. Now depending on the location & the time of the year these pricing parameters can change but good deals can always be done with good people who plan ahead.

Please note that the above stage prices are based on our 2019 fuel & crew costs.

One of the most common questions we are asked is ''Do you have any pictures of your outdoor mobile stages? or ''Can you email me pictures of your mobile stages please'' the answer is yes of course we do & we do our best to catalogue all of the different mobile stages we stock. We try to photograph not just the largest of mobile stages and the biggest of productions but also the smaller local festivals and as you'll see our 6 meter by 4 meter mobile stage & 7 meter by 5 meter mobile stage are becoming very popular with festival organisers. The easiest way to document all of these pictures is by using Instagram and you'll see at the top of this website a tab that says ''Gallery'' and as you would expect here you will find our Mobile Stage Hire Instagram page showing you a whole host of outdoor festivals we have worked on.

This next question which is common when somebody is enquiring about one of our mobile stages and they are unsure about what size stage to hire is ''How many artists or How many people can fit on the stage at one time'' this is a very tricky question to answer because you can have a 6 piece jazz band or a 6 piece vocal only backing track group or you can have a 6 piece dance & all of these artists would require a different size mobile stage so here we will document what the meterage is of the all our mobile stages and then we will also converted that into square feet so you're fully aware of the usable / internal stage size.

The next piece of information may also help you decide which mobile stage best suits your festival's needs: So a 6m by 4m mobile stage has an internal stage size of 24 square metres which is 258 square feet, now this stage uses 12 panels of stage deck and each stage deck can hold 2 people so you could have up to 24 people standing inside a 6m by 4m mobile stage with no instruments. Hopefully this will now give you an indication as to how many people could fit on the following mobile stages.

Our 7m by 5m mobile stage has an internal 35 square metres of usable stage area which converts to 376 square feet then it is a big jump to our 10 m by 8 m stage, as this outdoor stage has an internal area of 80 square metres which gives you a huge 861 square foot of usable stage area.... and then the mother of all festival stages! Our 12m by 10m fully mobile outdoor festival stage with a massive 120 sq metre stage area you will see these stages at festivals like Reading and Leeds - This stage has 1291 square foot under its roof!

So now what does this actually mean... well below we will give you our recommendations on what size mobile stage you might need:

Music breakdown of our recommendations so with a 6m by 4m stage we would recommend no more than 8 artists as we are compensating for instruments being used. Our 7m by 5m stage can hold a full 12-piece band and this is one of the main reasons this stage is so popular because hire cost for this mobile stage with a basic sound and lighting package is £2,500

The 10m by 8m stage is suited to larger events where you need additional stage space for backline techs to work on stage & monitor engineers have to set up additional equipment on the stage. The only artists that won't fit on a 10 by 8 m stage are normally very large orchestras.

And to finish off we have our 12m by 10m festival stage, well here you have a stage that can hold a 50-piece orchestra & is perfectly suited for an audience of up to 20,000 people. We do also offer the additional stage cowsheds for this stage as some artists require these as part of their contract. If this is the case please let us know so we can add it to your stage. (Yes, we charge for this)

We all love gorgeous sunny days maybe even a gentle wind blowing across your face, but this is England and the reality is although a Monday or Tuesday could be 28 degrees with 0% wind by Wednesday morning there could be 3ft of snow & 70 mile winds but still we are asked what happens if it rains....... Well it would rain.... this isn't ideal for us either as moving or building mobile stages in the rain isn't much fun & we would much prefer (just like yourselves) a gorgeous sunny day but if it does rain it just means the stage platform will become wet depending on the direction of the rain and you may then need to pull back some of the stage equipment if it is very heavy or the rain is coming in from the wrong direction causing equipment to become damp and unsafe to use.

So basically common sense is all that applies here, if the weather is really bad it doesn't matter what stage you have hired it will get wet & the stage platform will get wet but over the last 18 years of supplying and building mobile stages not once has rain alone stopped a stage from being used. (wind yes, rain no) "So, what's the problem with wind?" We get asked..... well although a mobile stage is either weighted or strapped to the ground still wind is your worst enemy. There are strict staging guidelines which outline not just the recommended safety procedure for high winds but the maximum wind rating that the stage can take and still be usable. This differs from stage to stage & also depends on the type of ballast you are using & the location of the mobile stage as we also have to take into consideration the wind gust factor, but all of this is for your safety (and ours) but mostly yours!

Still though people worry that their event could be cancelled due to high winds the short answer is yes there is a possibility that if the weather is that severe it would stop your event continuing but we must stress this is quite rare, doesn't happen very often & is normally in what we were classed at high risk zone for a mobile stage. A good example of this would be festival locations near the seafront as the gust factor can be over 85mph & believe us you won't want to be standing next to 3 tonnes of aluminium in 85mph wind.

Believe it or not we have been asked to build stages in the snow..... The answer is no and same goes for hurricanes!

Of course, you need to know how long the mobile stage will take to build which is a very popular question & rightly so, it comes back to weather & location. When you hire a mobile stage, it needs to be built on a relatively flat surface now of course we don't mean snooker table flat but then on the other hand we have turned up to some festival sites in the past & it's like the Himalayas. Below we will give you a rough build time four each stage size & for the purpose of this exercise we assume two smaller mobile stages come with a basic sound and lighting package while our two largest stages would be built with no sound and lighting.

A 6m by 4m mobile stage once arrived on site is normally under 4 hours until ready to go, lights on & sound technician ready for the first band which is quite impressive considering when you see the pictures of these stage setup... next up is our 7m by 5m & we would assume that you are also going to hire the pa side wings with this mobile stage which takes is up to a build time roughly 6 hours at which point we would be ready for the first band again.

Both the 10m by 8m or 12m by 10m festival stages require a ''one day build'' which we mean one day before the event onto site to build the start building, now although the build time is only usually 8 hours on the 10m by 8m stage & 12 hours on the 12m by 10m stage we much prefer to have that window of time just in case the weather was to change or the ground is particularly bad. We like to play on the side of caution and this is just so we continue to be reliable, on time & work stress free.

If you require your mobile stage to be built quicker this is an option but of course costs more as your crew costs can add up very quickly but anything... is normally... always... possible.

This is very simple to answer, every client has a different requirement / a different vision in mind to some of our other clients. Over the years have built mobile stages 10 meters wide by 8 meters deep for corporate events where only 300 - 400 people have attended, yet we have worked with councils who hire a 6 meter by 4 meter mobile stage or a 7 meter by 5 meter mobile stage & some of these outdoor events have anywhere between 2000 to 5000 across the festival site so it really does depend on the look & feel that you want for your event.

Now if you have less than 3500 attend your event you will generally find a 7 meter by 5 meter mobile stage is fine up to around 4,000 people, at which point you may want to look at hiring a bigger mobile stage.

One thing to bear in mind is that although huge epic outdoor stages look amazing please remember.... you now need the sound & lights to go with the big stage! You need the infrastructure & good access to your festival site. With a 10 meter by 8 meter or 12 meters by 10 meter mobile stage we also require the use of a professional telehandler driver / telehandler on site.

Sometimes it's not as much a budget related decision to hire a small stage but a practical one... Maybe you have a short window of time to set up the stage, sound & lighting in which case a smaller mobile stage would work much better.

If you're still unsure about what mobile stage to hire check out our Instagram page where you can find videos and pictures of all of our stages (we also have a gallery section at the top of this website which links directly to Instagram page if you're having trouble finding it)

When you are trying to obtain a quote to hire a mobile stage one of the first questions any stage hire company should ask is ''what is the ground type that the stage is to be built on''. The ground surface that the stages are to be built on is very important & can affect what equipment is taken to site and what the total build time could be.

Ideally, we like to build on grass as there is no additional cost to you as you don't need to hire stage ballast as we use a special ground anchoring system called spirafix where ground rods up to 1.2 meters long get pinned into the ground holding the mobile stage in place.

The main difference between grass or concrete is concrete you need to hire the required ballast to hold the stage down and this can range from 250 kilos per leg up to 3 tonnes depending on the size stage you have & the location of the stage. Things like how close it is to the seafront, elevation of the ground where the festival is taking place so please never assume that we have ways of securing your stage to a hard surface.... You would definitely be asked this question by one of our friendly staff members way before anything could be booked so don't worry but if you're flicking through some stage websites wondering who to hire a stage from just remember this is a very important part to check.

Mobile stage hire is a d&b audiotechnik sound system stockists which basically means you will never have a problem with any of your DJs', artists or performers as these sound systems are recognised as one of the world's most premium PA systems on the market.

Our d&b Audiotechnik PA sound systems offer a smooth, detailed sound. All of our PA packages are scalable to your event so whether this is 100 people in front of your stage for a product launch, cooking show or 10,000 for your Orchestra / Orchestral music festival it's no problem & we promise to provide a clear, reliable PA system with excellent coverage & unmatched detail.

Many festival organisers book live music acts without fully understanding that a lot of these artists have detailed technical riders which need to be adhered to. The equipment they ask for allows them to perform but depending on the calibre of artist you are booking there always be some wiggle room in terms of compromise.

We always suggest that it's a good idea to obtain a quote for the additional ''backline'' required for the potential artist to perform this way you won't have any nasty surprises a few months or weeks before your festival. We are one of the very few mobile stage companies that takes the side of the organiser as opposed to the artist.... many of these artists can perform with minimum amount of equipment thus saving you money which allows you to spend this in other areas of your production or maybe another stage or marketing so just to reiterate always ask a professional sound hire company to look over what it is the artist is asking for & if it seems a reasonable request considering the size of the event and other parameters that may affect the advice given.

At least then you'll have the opportunity to go back to the artist management company suggesting that maybe the equipment you already have on site is more than suitable to allow them to perform & as a lot of the time these artists turn up and they have no idea what was ever asked for and it's just a generic email which is sent out with all artist management firms so be smart and save your money :)

For our 6 meter X 4 meter mobile stage we suggest a platform height of 1.5ft or 1.1 meters & the same goes for a 7 meter X 5 meter and 8 meter X 6 meter mobile stages. When you are hiring a larger mobile stage such as a 10 meter X 8 meter or 12 meter X 10 meter structures these start with a stage leg height of 1.2 meters. We can offer deck heights up to 1.8 meters but please contact us before you choose as all of these options depend on our availability / time of year as we get very busy.

You can have the stage platform any height that you wish but for custom legs there are additional charges and this can add up quickly. This is why we suggest using our standard 460mm (1.5ft) stage legs or 1100mm (1.1 meter) stage legs

I've been waiting to write the answer to ''why book your stage with Mobile Stage Hire Company'' and here is my best sales pitch to you.

Mobile Stage Hire is part of the Outdoor Stages company which is ran by a small, tight, efficient, knowledgeable, reliable, trustworthy team! We don't use any old freelance sound or lighting technician. We stock the right branded professional sound & lighting equipment & we turn up on time, at the right location & do exactly what's been asked of us.

We then pack up, tidy up & drive to our warehouse - That is why people come back to us. Starting a stage hire company is not easy & over the years there has been many that have tried but we are still here, still one of the most trusted while also always trying to improve not only the service but the staging packages we offer at a price point we feel is fair & balanced for both parties.

There are some very cheap mobile stage companies out there we all know what it is like to fly with a budget airline so now imagine they are building your festival stage which is going to support thousands of pounds worth of sound & lighting equipment not to mention people's lives.

There is a very big difference between paying the right amount of money for a very good deal or any amount of money for a very bad deal. A common call we get in the summer months are calls to us explaining that they have a problem with the stage they have hired from another company & do we have any availability? Unfortunately, the answer is often we are fully booked. Remember hire cheap, hire twice...

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Choosing stage lighting for your event is one of the most important elements to get right. At first glance, it may not seem as important as good acoustics or seating, but without a good stage light balance, your event can be too dark causing the audience to lose interest or not fully see whats on stage. Even if you’re not planning on having a major festival, or hosting a large audience, the stage lighting you choose could also add to the safety, look and feel of any occasion.

Any large event requires a lot of attention to detail, however, most of those little things you worry about won’t even be noticed by your guests. Yet, when executed in the right way, that is an earmark of success. It means that your event went smoothly and was seamless in execution.

Whenever you are planning an outdoor event, careful attention to detail is essential. Because so many things can have an effect on how well it will turn out, it is important that you consider every aspect from every angle. One area that often suffers when an event is planned for outdoors is the sound system. Making the right decision is not always easy, especially if you don't have a lot of experience in understanding acoustics or other issues that can affect the sound quality.

Stage Hire Packages

Popular stage, lighting & sound hire packages

This stage 6 meter X 4 meter hire package is great for smaller events where cost & budgets are tight but you still need an impressive stage for your event without any sound or lighting equipment.

This mobile stage package gives you a covered stage of 6m X 4m with a workable stage area of 6m x 4m which is 20ft X 14ft or 280sqft / 25sqm. You have a roof payload of 250kg distributed equally across three arcs. This stage is very popular for Christmas light switch ons or smaller local festivals again where budgets are tight & build time must be kept to a min.

Hire our 7 meter by 5 meter mobile stage package where you or your client already has the sound & lighting hired in place. This stage hire package is great for medium sized events where cost & budgets are tight but you still need an impressive stage for your event without any sound or lighting equipment. If sound & lighting is required this can be supplied as well or see mobile stage package 3 where you can hire this same 7m X 5m stage but with a complete PA & lighting package

This mobile stage package gives you a covered stage of 7m X 5m with a workable stage area of 7m x 5m which is 23ft X 17ft or 391sqft / 35sqm. You have a roof payload of 250kg distributed equally across three arcs and the whole stage can be built on grass with 4 crew in 3 hours!

The cost above of £1000 does NOT include the PA side wings which is an extra charge. If you're looking to add PA wings to your stage allowing you to brand the side of the stage then this cost would increase to a total of £1300. The PA wings are 2 meters wide @ 4 meters high, we only allow banners to be fixed & hung to these sides & they MUST manufactured with an opaqueness of 75%.

The 7 meter by 5 meter arc roof stage is based on the same design as our 6-meter by 4 meter & 10-meter by 8-meter stages. The stage deck fits inside the structure and is available with 1.5ft, 1m or 1.3m legs - Please remember that when using 1.3m legs there is an extra change for this due to added bracing having to be installed underneath the stage deck.

Our 7-meter by 5-meter arc roof mobile stage is great for DJ & live music events where you have an audience of around 1000 to 3500 people. Now of course we have customers who hire this stage only have an audience of around 500, while some other events might have 5000 people in front of the stage. What we are trying to say is that this stage is very flexible & works for most events but if you're on a buget & still want to hire a smart looking arc roof stage but this is slightly too much then check out our smallest 6-meter by 4-meter stage packages.

This mobile stage package can be customised to suit your sound & lighting needs but as standard this package comes with a d&b Audiotechnik speaker system capable of covering an area which would hold an audience of up to 2,000* (*This is very rough & depends on your festival site layout)

The sound package that comes with this mobile stage is perfect for small to medium sized live bands which is what we find most of our clients have booked so we include a full sized 32 channel digital sound mixing desk, microphones, stage monitors and of course some super friendly technicians to make it all work.

So now a quick overview of the stage lighting that is included in this package. Just like the sound your stage lighting can be customized to suit your requirements but as standard we include a number of different lighting fixtures from LED tourcan's to light the front, back & sides of the stage to our LED moving head fixtures for generating aerial effects & we even include some LED moving head wash light for day time ''eye candy'' effects as its very hard to see stage lighting in the bright sun light. Add this all together with some stage smoke & you have a high-end professional lighting display for your event at an amazing price point but of course some like to go that bit extra... if you want to, we can of course help.

A couple of extra options also available for this stage is adding on a set of 2-meter wide stage PA wings which will allow you to brand the front of the stage with your festivals sponsor. Adding PA stage wings also gives this stage a huge stage external frontage of 11 meters wide making perfect for your medium sized outdoor festivals.

Another popular option is hiring LED video wall for branding & advising or a live feed of the stage itself. Our LED video wall systems can be ground stacked at the back of the stage, again perfect if you're looking to wow the festival goers

Build time for this stage is around 4 hours but again this is highly dependent on the ground & weather on the day due to the location of your festival - This is the same with all outdoor covered stages - All weather but especially wind plays a massive factor in build time and if the ground is very unlevel it will obviously take longer to level the stage decks.

The mother of all outdoor festival stages! The Milos MRT12 a massive 12-meter-wide, 10-meter-deep & 7-meter-high main stage festival package. This stage has a working roof payload of 5,000kg meaning you can go crazy with the production plus hanging Led video wall at the back isn't an issue.

Need to hire access ramps / loading ramps for the stage? Not a problem and we can also offer you an additional 4 meter by 3-meter monitor world ''cow shed'' which basically means where the on-stage monitor technicians store & operate the stage monitors out of sight from the crowd. A very popular option for larger events booking A listed music artists.

This large outdoor stage is perfect for events with an audience up to 12,000 & don't worry this main stage festival package is perfect for a no fuss all in one main stage production package. With this stage hire package we can also offer a fully comprehensive site power service for those who don't yet have a temporary power supplier.

Apart from the state-of-the-art d&b Audiotechnik PA system, intelligent moving head DMX lighting fixtures we have also included a huge 8-meter-high by 3-meter-wide LED video for live on stage camera work or live DJ / VJ visuals. This is a high end small 6mm pitch LED video wall stage package perfect again for those larger events where a big impact is key to the event.

Our 12 meter by 10-meter festival stages have a massive 120sqm of useable stage area which converted is 1,291Sqft. We offer this at a deck height of 1.2 meters to 1.5 meters - there is an additional charge of £800 for 1.5-meter high stage decking

If you would like to hire the stage on its own this is always on option & the weekly rental is £9,000 for the stage on its own with 4-meter stage PA wings. The stage PA wings have a working payload of 1,500kg per side meaning you're fine to fly even the largest of line array systems from d&b Audiotechnik J series to L'Acoustics K1.

Ok but let's say you just want Mobile Stage Hire to deal with everything from supplying & building the stage to installing the sound & stage production but you're unsure why you should book with us? Ok well here is 3 good reasons why to hire a festival stage from Mobile Stage Hire

First reason, we are very reliable & have a trusted reputation for supplying & building mobile stages to local councils & MOD /Army facilities as well as iconic festival locations parks like Hyde Park, London O2, Reading & Leeds.

Second reason, if you were to go & hire this stage, sound, lighting & LED video wall package from four different separate hire companies you would first spend a lot of time doing so but the main point we are trying to make is it would cost you a lot more in most cases.

Last but not least... as mentioned above we are able to supply & operate all the power on your festival site when booking this stage. If you have a site map to scale, a list of the supplies you need & where they are going. (this information is very important to give you an accurate quote)

So, you really can click a few buttons, send a few emails & book a massive main festival stage fit for the likes of Ed Sheeran & co

This stage 6 meter X 4 meter hire package is great for smaller events where cost & budgets are tight but you still need an impressive stage for your event without any sound or lighting equipment.

This mobile stage package gives you a covered stage of 6m X 4m with a workable stage area of 6m x 4m which is 20ft X 14ft or 280sqft / 25sqm. You have a roof payload of 250kg distributed equally across three arcs. This stage is very popular for Christmas light switch ons or smaller local festivals again where budgets are tight & build time must be kept to a min.

Hire our 7 meter by 5 meter mobile stage package where you or your client already has the sound & lighting hired in place. This stage hire package is great for medium sized events where cost & budgets are tight but you still need an impressive stage for your event without any sound or lighting equipment. If sound & lighting is required this can be supplied as well or see mobile stage package 3 where you can hire this same 7m X 5m stage but with a complete PA & lighting package

This mobile stage package gives you a covered stage of 7m X 5m with a workable stage area of 7m x 5m which is 23ft X 17ft or 391sqft / 35sqm. You have a roof payload of 250kg distributed equally across three arcs and the whole stage can be built on grass with 4 crew in 3 hours!

The cost above of £1000 does NOT include the PA side wings which is an extra charge. If you're looking to add PA wings to your stage allowing you to brand the side of the stage then this cost would increase to a total of £1300. The PA wings are 2 meters wide @ 4 meters high, we only allow banners to be fixed & hung to these sides & they MUST manufactured with an opaqueness of 75%.

The 7 meter by 5 meter arc roof stage is based on the same design as our 6-meter by 4 meter & 10-meter by 8-meter stages. The stage deck fits inside the structure and is available with 1.5ft, 1m or 1.3m legs - Please remember that when using 1.3m legs there is an extra change for this due to added bracing having to be installed underneath the stage deck.

Our 7-meter by 5-meter arc roof mobile stage is great for DJ & live music events where you have an audience of around 1000 to 3500 people. Now of course we have customers who hire this stage only have an audience of around 500, while some other events might have 5000 people in front of the stage. What we are trying to say is that this stage is very flexible & works for most events but if you're on a buget & still want to hire a smart looking arc roof stage but this is slightly too much then check out our smallest 6-meter by 4-meter stage packages.

This mobile stage package can be customised to suit your sound & lighting needs but as standard this package comes with a d&b Audiotechnik speaker system capable of covering an area which would hold an audience of up to 2,000* (*This is very rough & depends on your festival site layout)

The sound package that comes with this mobile stage is perfect for small to medium sized live bands which is what we find most of our clients have booked so we include a full sized 32 channel digital sound mixing desk, microphones, stage monitors and of course some super friendly technicians to make it all work.

So now a quick overview of the stage lighting that is included in this package. Just like the sound your stage lighting can be customized to suit your requirements but as standard we include a number of different lighting fixtures from LED tourcan's to light the front, back & sides of the stage to our LED moving head fixtures for generating aerial effects & we even include some LED moving head wash light for day time ''eye candy'' effects as its very hard to see stage lighting in the bright sun light. Add this all together with some stage smoke & you have a high-end professional lighting display for your event at an amazing price point but of course some like to go that bit extra... if you want to, we can of course help.

A couple of extra options also available for this stage is adding on a set of 2-meter wide stage PA wings which will allow you to brand the front of the stage with your festivals sponsor. Adding PA stage wings also gives this stage a huge stage external frontage of 11 meters wide making perfect for your medium sized outdoor festivals.

Another popular option is hiring LED video wall for branding & advising or a live feed of the stage itself. Our LED video wall systems can be ground stacked at the back of the stage, again perfect if you're looking to wow the festival goers

Build time for this stage is around 4 hours but again this is highly dependent on the ground & weather on the day due to the location of your festival - This is the same with all outdoor covered stages - All weather but especially wind plays a massive factor in build time and if the ground is very unlevel it will obviously take longer to level the stage decks.

The mother of all outdoor festival stages! The Milos MRT12 a massive 12-meter-wide, 10-meter-deep & 7-meter-high main stage festival package. This stage has a working roof payload of 5,000kg meaning you can go crazy with the production plus hanging Led video wall at the back isn't an issue.

Need to hire access ramps / loading ramps for the stage? Not a problem and we can also offer you an additional 4 meter by 3-meter monitor world ''cow shed'' which basically means where the on-stage monitor technicians store & operate the stage monitors out of sight from the crowd. A very popular option for larger events booking A listed music artists.

This large outdoor stage is perfect for events with an audience up to 12,000 & don't worry this main stage festival package is perfect for a no fuss all in one main stage production package. With this stage hire package we can also offer a fully comprehensive site power service for those who don't yet have a temporary power supplier.

Apart from the state-of-the-art d&b Audiotechnik PA system, intelligent moving head DMX lighting fixtures we have also included a huge 8-meter-high by 3-meter-wide LED video for live on stage camera work or live DJ / VJ visuals. This is a high end small 6mm pitch LED video wall stage package perfect again for those larger events where a big impact is key to the event.

Our 12 meter by 10-meter festival stages have a massive 120sqm of useable stage area which converted is 1,291Sqft. We offer this at a deck height of 1.2 meters to 1.5 meters - there is an additional charge of £800 for 1.5-meter high stage decking

If you would like to hire the stage on its own this is always on option & the weekly rental is £9,000 for the stage on its own with 4-meter stage PA wings. The stage PA wings have a working payload of 1,500kg per side meaning you're fine to fly even the largest of line array systems from d&b Audiotechnik J series to L'Acoustics K1.

Ok but let's say you just want Mobile Stage Hire to deal with everything from supplying & building the stage to installing the sound & stage production but you're unsure why you should book with us? Ok well here is 3 good reasons why to hire a festival stage from Mobile Stage Hire

First reason, we are very reliable & have a trusted reputation for supplying & building mobile stages to local councils & MOD /Army facilities as well as iconic festival locations parks like Hyde Park, London O2, Reading & Leeds.

Second reason, if you were to go & hire this stage, sound, lighting & LED video wall package from four different separate hire companies you would first spend a lot of time doing so but the main point we are trying to make is it would cost you a lot more in most cases.

Last but not least... as mentioned above we are able to supply & operate all the power on your festival site when booking this stage. If you have a site map to scale, a list of the supplies you need & where they are going. (this information is very important to give you an accurate quote)

So, you really can click a few buttons, send a few emails & book a massive main festival stage fit for the likes of Ed Sheeran & co

Why Would You Hire A Mobile Trailer Stage Over Arc Roof Mobile Stage?

So, both mobile trailer stages & traditional hand-built mobile stages have their place in the event & festival industry but we would like to quickly (if possible) highlight some of the pros & cons to hiring a mobile trailer stage & a normal arc roof mobile stage system like what we use.

If your festival location is remote with bad access or access onto the ground isn't great with tight turns or maybe the ground is very soft due to rain the weeks before, you are going to find it hard to get a 35ft long, 14ft high, 10ft wide mobile trailer stage on the festival site - This is the biggest problem with mobile ''trailer'' stages that we have seen - If the access is great, the ground is dry & flat & no low bridges on route then the short answer is a mobile trailer stage is one to consider plus quick & easy to assemble (roughly 2 hours) but just be aware there have been some issues when trailer stages can't get onto site due to a mixture of the above, so the alternative arc roof mobile stage is the better option in our view as even if the festival ground is bad its nearly always possible to build the stage with the right amount of crew as the stage is in sections & can be moved by hand.

It seems to be people's perception that trailer stages are cheaper to hire than a normal hand-built arc roof mobile stage... Well we aren't sure why, as the average hire price for an 8-meter by 6-meter mobile trailer stage is around £2,900 without sound & lighting & sometimes its plus delivery of the stage to the festival location. Mobile Stage Hire offer a fully built 7-meter by 5-meter (internal stage size*) arc roof mobile stage with sound & lighting plus a 1-day technician for £3,499 including delivery, setup & collection of the stage within 50 miles Hampshire, Surrey or London. (Please note our mobile stage has an internal usable stage size of 7 meters by 5 meters but the overall / external size of the stage is 11 meters by 5 meters if you also hire stage PA wings otherwise its 7.5 meter by 6.2 meters without the stage PA wings)

One last thing to remember when you're weighing up the options between hiring a mobile trailer stage or an arc roof mobile stage is the actual usable stage deck area. A trailer stage can have a useable 8 meter by 6-meter stage area but be sure to check this as sometimes this isn't the case due to the trailer stage design & the manufacturing restrictions in place when trying to fit a self-folding stage onto a lorry vehicle. Whereas with our stages if we say that they are 7 meters by 5 meters, 10 meters by 8 meters or 12 meters by 10 meters that is always usable* stage area. *This is the usable staging area inside underneath the roof of the stage structure.

Thank you for Visiting Mobile Stage Hire

If you've got to this point of the website then congratulations that is a lot of information to read that's been written for a reason and that was to help you understand information is needed when you're looking to hire a mobile stage.

Like all good stage hire companies we get booked up roughly 9 months in advance this is not to say that we are unable to supply stages last minute because we do, but as any event organiser will know there are some key dates across May, June, July, August-September and then November for fireworks in December for Christmas lights switch on good solid stages/ safe stages are hard to come by. Unfortunately, it is an industry which to some degree is self-regulating, anybody can go buy a used stage structure and start building stages. This is very dangerous! research should be taken into consideration when selecting any supplier.

There is another assumption about stage hire companies is that we all have an abundance of stages stacked up on the shelf waiting to go out on hire, this is not true! Although there are two extremely large stage hire companies in Europe these two companies are currently in the world wide touring market so they are a complete level on from a 6m or 12m mobile stages.....

Well we hope you have learnt something from all the facts that we have detailed on this website about how to hire the stage, what sort of stage to hire, to payloads, wind calculations, ballast requirements, structural calculations through to what does it cost to hire a stage and when is the best time to book a stage. All this has been detailed for you hopefully making a decision of what stage company to use a little easier.